brevirostrate

The definition of brevirostrate is a bird with a short beak.

(adjective)

An example of brevirostrate is a night hawk; a brevirostrate bird.

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See brevirostrate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

having a short beak or bill: said of a bird

Origin: brevi- + rostrate

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